News Report
...they had piled up tinder wood and firecrackers
under the cauldron ready for the feast as they
shelled out wisdom and claimed justice
after all humanity was at stake
and doomsayers were to be plea...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
panzer, war,
Form: Free verse
The Semien Kingdom
...the Semienite kings erected stelae
to the kingdom of the wrestling with God;
Ethiopian hinterlands ruled with the iron fist of Judea,
the flag of Magen David swaying in Abyssinian winds.
Judit...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
panzer, god, history,
Form: Free verse
Salute To the Tortoise
...Citadel of wits and tricks
Who appears wimpish;
But your back is stronger
And harder than Olumo rock,
And the great walls of China;
Citadel of wits and tricks
Who staggers like a Kampf panzer,
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
panzer, africa, animal, appreciation, hyperbole,
Form: Ode
1930's Europe
...They wondered where the sunshine had all gone,
and gentle breezes warming spring's array;
the hues of pink that greeted breaking dawn,
and children’s laughter lighting up the day.
The darkness ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
panzer, anxiety, conflict, war,
Form: Sonnet
Obsessive Constraints Part One
...Thy birth on January 13th –
cervical contractions
would not abate
the pesky master (papa), strove
to synchronize seminal bait
thence, forty-two weeks
after ma parents did pro ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
panzer, growth, hate, hurt, self,
Form: Bio
Obsessive Constraints - Part Ii
...the onset of emotional nadir,
where ballistic ordnance bombed away
fancy free, innocent, naïve boyhood
decrying, detonating, and describing me own Pigs Bay
Allied, linkedin, and synced Lu...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
panzer, birth, body, boy, character,
Form: Bio
Bleeding Before Rome -2
...Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenc...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
panzer, culture, heart, war, world
Form: Epic
Flirting With Free Verse
...Formal forms feel nice and safe
But meter makes me sweat
Sometimes rhymes will grind and chafe
And stresses makes me fret
Perhaps there is another way?
I need to be diverse
Panzer stanzas mad...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
panzer, funny, humor, humorous, poems,
Form: Free verse
O M
...I guess I really miss your message,
And there is nothing here to damn,
I am upset. The birds start passage
I do not see sweet sign: O.M.
I have destroyed myself this story
with latest letter, it...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
panzer, emotions, feelings, hurt, lost
Form: Lyric
Love Sonnet Take 1
...Firm against the tempest we stand
Hip to hip and hand in hand
And when your hair flicks my nose
An excited shiver reaches my toes
As we stand beneath shining full moon
I shuffle a little to cr...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
panzer, humorous, love, romance, soulmate,
Form: Sonnet
Memoir
...Marching the streets with our flags flying high
Deutschland uber allas was our battle cry
The Youth taught me to be tough and bold
With out hesitation I carried out every order I was told
To defe...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
panzer, history,
Form: Lyric
The War Demons Exposed
...My father marched gung-ho towards anarchy,
Many friends by his side fell before the end,
They died brave in the face of danger and sin,
Their memories erased buried in mud blend.
The men went ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
panzer, dark, war,
Form: Rhyme
Till Ragnorak Comes
...From Valhalla’s fortress of spears and shields,
Valkyrie riders make their daily runs…
Crossing Bifrost to Midgard’s battlefields,
Harvesting warriors till Ragnorak comes.
Flying from Valhal...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
panzer, death, mythology, religion, song,
Form: Lyric
Tobruk Siege
...Tobruk Siege
Rommel of the Blitzkrieg
had Europe overcome
With the Stukas and dive bombing
And the Tanks that overrun
North Africka would see his tanks
il Duce’s troops were beat
Aussies...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
panzer, adventure
Form: Rhyme
The Last of the Brothers
...During the Second World War
A decision was made
If brothers were to be lost
The last would be saved
The story below
Is the truth in a way
For the search of a soldier
Before he becomes, theat...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
panzer, brother, death, family, history,
Form: Rhyme
Related Poems